Wednesday, June 30, 2010

National Museum of Mankind

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, an autonomous organization of Govt. of India, Ministry of Culture is dedicated to the depiction of story of mankind in time and space. The Sangrahalaya is involved in generating a new museum movement in India, with open, freewheeling, flexible plan, to demonstrate the simultaneous validity of human cultures and the pluriality of alternatives for human articulation. The innovative aspects of the Organisatoin are its open air and indoor exhibitions, built with active involvement of traditional artisans and experts drawn from different community groups, and the Education, Outreach and Salvage activities for revitalisatin of vanishing but valuable cultural traditions.

The headquarters of the IGRMS is located in Bhopal (M.P.) while a regional centre is functioning from Heritage building Wellington House, Mysore (Karnataka).

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IGRMS exhibitions are broadly divided into three categories namely (i) Open-exhibitions (ii) Veethi-Sankul (indoor galleries) (iii) Periodical/ Temporary exhibitions. Conceptually the presentations in open-air and indoor galleries are complementary to each other. The objectives of these exhibitions are to present the cohesive life styles of various Indian communities in different eco-climatic zones of the country, their aesthetic values, religious expressions, and socio-economic philosophies for living. The emphasis is to highlight their richness and diversities of India’s cultural patterns and the underlying unity. To begin with, life style of the people living in tribal hamlets, coastal Indian regions along the lengthy sea coastlines, Himalayan regions, River Valleys, Deserts & Arid zones are presented through the exhibitions. To show the richness and diversities, different clusters of traditional house-types from different regions are either transplanted or re-created in the open-air exhibitions. Care has been taken to create appropriate environment around these house-types.